Clark University is hosting the Animals and Society Institute’s 2010 Human-Animal Studies Fellowship Conference, under way since May 24 and featuring public presentations by 20 distinguished scholars from around the world, from June 28 through July 1.

This is the fourth year of the six-week ASI program, which brings together animal-studies scholars for individual research focusing on a wide range of topics, such as the human-animal dynamic, animal welfare and policy, ethics, cloning, and literary and cultural topics.

This is the first time Clark University is hosting the program, led by Professor Jody Emel, director of the Graduate School of Geography at Clark. Emel is a co-editor of the book “Animal Geographies:  Place, Politics and Identity in the Nature-Culture Borderlands.”   Susan McHugh, a professor of English at the University of New England, is the adjunct host.  More…